Tena and Curry(GA)
Member Since 2010
Happy Sunday y'all.
I forgot what cool air felt like.....Its currently 63.....time for winter coats....naw..just kidding...but it sure does feel good.
So I started researching pet doors. Some require the kitty to wear a collar and one allows for a micro chipped kitty. Ummmmmm. First one costs less....OK....lets experiement with that one.....
Oh, forgot to tell ya WHY I'm experimenting with pet doors. Sid is my EVO dry kibble eater and refused to switch to canned. She goes on food strikes if I attempt a switch, even if I go sloooooooooooooooooowly. She eats her food in my bedroom w/the door closed.....She HATES closed doors.....So typically I put her in the bedroom w/the food...she eats some, none or all her food and then comes to the door and meows to be let out. If she eats...that's great....if not, we play the "Please will ya eat your food" game and go back and forth w/the food. Basically its a pain. She's become more of a grazer than Curry. Furthermore, if I go out of town, one of them would have to be locked up in a room. Sid is skittish, hides and won't come out if food is left and then Miss Hoover, Curry, would snarf it down in 2 seconds. I've been very fortunate that Curry has not gotten into any of the kibble except once at the beginning of her diabetes journey.
So I experimented first w/a collar on Sid. Then even purchased the sensor for the collar to see how she would react. NOT. She scratched and scratched and scratched.....You get the picture. So I decided since she was due for her annual vetty appointment I would have her micro chipped for the other pet door. Done. No problem.
Then I had to put a hole in my bedroom door ( I live in an apartment and will have to purchase a new door before leaving here....already did that research). So I borrowed a jigsaw from a friend....I have never used a jigsaw.....Dang, those things are loud......Put the hole in the door and set the pet door in place.
Then I had the door open for Sid to jump through and used food to entice her. The video shows Sid squeezing through the door....they are awfully small....Sid weights about 9 lbs.....You can hear the loud clicking sound of the locking mechanism which scares her....have it temporarity disabled it for now and also have the door taped in an open position to get her use to going through.
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I forgot what cool air felt like.....Its currently 63.....time for winter coats....naw..just kidding...but it sure does feel good.
So I started researching pet doors. Some require the kitty to wear a collar and one allows for a micro chipped kitty. Ummmmmm. First one costs less....OK....lets experiement with that one.....
Oh, forgot to tell ya WHY I'm experimenting with pet doors. Sid is my EVO dry kibble eater and refused to switch to canned. She goes on food strikes if I attempt a switch, even if I go sloooooooooooooooooowly. She eats her food in my bedroom w/the door closed.....She HATES closed doors.....So typically I put her in the bedroom w/the food...she eats some, none or all her food and then comes to the door and meows to be let out. If she eats...that's great....if not, we play the "Please will ya eat your food" game and go back and forth w/the food. Basically its a pain. She's become more of a grazer than Curry. Furthermore, if I go out of town, one of them would have to be locked up in a room. Sid is skittish, hides and won't come out if food is left and then Miss Hoover, Curry, would snarf it down in 2 seconds. I've been very fortunate that Curry has not gotten into any of the kibble except once at the beginning of her diabetes journey.
So I experimented first w/a collar on Sid. Then even purchased the sensor for the collar to see how she would react. NOT. She scratched and scratched and scratched.....You get the picture. So I decided since she was due for her annual vetty appointment I would have her micro chipped for the other pet door. Done. No problem.
Then I had to put a hole in my bedroom door ( I live in an apartment and will have to purchase a new door before leaving here....already did that research). So I borrowed a jigsaw from a friend....I have never used a jigsaw.....Dang, those things are loud......Put the hole in the door and set the pet door in place.
Then I had the door open for Sid to jump through and used food to entice her. The video shows Sid squeezing through the door....they are awfully small....Sid weights about 9 lbs.....You can hear the loud clicking sound of the locking mechanism which scares her....have it temporarity disabled it for now and also have the door taped in an open position to get her use to going through.
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We hit a bit of a roadblock when Pinky went to the vet for sedation and X-rays. He came back very upset, and Teddy was freaked out by the vet smell, and I never got back into the routine. I am continuing with the timesharing, where Pinky gets much more time to run around and explore the house while Teddy naps in a closed room. As I am typing, Teddy is sitting beside me on Pinkerton's favorite spot beside the computer, and Pinky is napping in Teddy's bed beside the TV.